Former AG William Barr's memoir to be published March 8

NEW YORK – Former Attorney General William P. Barr has a memoir coming retired March 8 titled “One Damn Thing After Another,” and billed by his steadfast arsenic a “vivid and forthright book” of his clip serving 2 “drastically different” presidents, Donald Trump and George H.W. Bush.

"Barr takes readers down the scenes during seminal moments of the Bush medication successful the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra," William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced Tuesday. “With the Trump administration, Barr faced an unrelenting barrage of issues, specified arsenic Russiagate, the opioid epidemic, Chinese espionage, large tech, the COVID outbreak, civilian unrest, the archetypal impeachment, and the 2020 predetermination fallout.”

The rubric of the long-rumored publication refers to an look Barr had heard astir the quality of the occupation of lawyer general.

Barr, present 71, served nether Bush from 1991-93 and nether Trump from 2019-2020. Barr had initially been 1 of Trump's astir ardent allies and was accused of being consenting to sacrifice the independency of the Justice Department connected behalf of the president.

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One of his astir arguable actions progressive peculiar counsel Robert Mueller's probe of ties betwixt Russian officials and Trump's statesmanlike run successful 2016. Before the afloat study was made public, Barr framed the results successful a mode favorable to Trump, adjacent though Mueller pointedly said helium couldn’t exonerate the president of obstruction of justice.

But Barr parted with Trump a period aft the 2020 predetermination erstwhile helium told The Associated Press that the DOJ had uncovered nary grounds of wide elector fraud. That contradicted Trump's mendacious contentions that fraud outgo him the contention against Democratic campaigner Joe Biden. An enraged Trump met with Barr soon aft the AP interrogation was published and alleged, ”You indispensable person said that due to the fact that you hatred Trump, you indispensable truly hatred Trump."

Barr stepped down soon earlier Christmas successful 2020.

After the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to overturn the predetermination results, Barr issued a connection successful which helium condemned Trump for “orchestrating a mob to unit Congress.”

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“The President’s behaviour yesterday was a betrayal of his bureau and supporters," helium added.

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